It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
“I studied voice for three months to get rid of my English accent. I changed my hair to blonde. I knew I could be sexy if I had to.”
“I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.”